Trans Research Group

About The Trans Research Committee

The Trans Research Group is a transgender and non-binary (TGNB) led committee. It aims to expand TGNB-centered research, aid in social and policy changes, and ultimately have a positive impact on the community as a whole. The group's research acknowledges the lived experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex community members and researchers. The research is guided by a theoretical framework that includes minority stress, resilience, intersectionality, and interpersonal and professional relationships.

Currently, the commitee is focusing on research that promotes a greater understanding of the social determinants of health that impact transgender folks, with the greater goal of informing policies, practices, and TGNB-centered programs that can support the trans and non-binary community.

Current Ongoing Studies

Developing an adapted gender minority stress and resilience model to explain alcohol use and harms among transgender youth who drink

Aim: To examine experiences leading up to the occasions that transgender

youth drink alcohol (such as victimization and discrimination), experiences

while they drink (such as mood and drug effects), and experiences after they

drink (such as harms, like a hangover, missing school or work, having a fight),

using cell phone-based surveys.

HOPE Centre Principal Investigator(s): Sarah S. Dermody, Alex Abramovich

Community Partners/Advisors/Knowledge Users: Christina Yager (CAMH)

Theo Quinn, Christian Hendershot, Trevor Hart, Elizabeth Saewyc, Jeffrey

Wardell

Developing an adapted gender minority stress model to explain alcohol use and harms among transgender adults who drink

Aim: Examine health risks and contributors of alcohol use among transgender

adults and helping to develop gender-inclusive public health policies and

interventions to prevent alcohol-related harms.

HOPE Centre Principal Investigator(s): Sarah S. Dermody, Alex Abramovich

Community Partners/Advisors/Knowledge Users: Christina Yager (CAMH,)

Theo Quinn, Christian S. Hendershot, Trevor Hart, Elizabeth Saewyc, Jeffrey

Wardell, Sherbourne Health

Building gender diverse communities - Developing an informed, youth-led, model of care for the trans youth served by the M'Wikwedong Friendship Centre

Aim: This partnership will support a team of Indigenous and racialized trans

researchers and our partner, M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre, to

develop a practice framework and a corresponding actionable plan to address the

needs of the Two-Spirit, Indigenous, and non-Indigenous trans youth they serve.

The goal to develop a set of actionable items that the M’Wikendong Friendship

Centre as well as local health and community agencies can implement to better

serve their trans youth.

HOPE Centre Principal Investigator(s): Julie James

Community Partners/Advisors/Knowledge Users: M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre, practitioners in Grey-Bruce County in healthcare, education, and community services.

Examining the experiences of transgender and non-binary nurses in the workplace

Aim: Explore the experiences and issues faced by transgender and non-binary (TGNB) individuals attempting to access professional nursing education as well as those working/have worked in the nursing field in Canada. Explore how these experiences intersect with their intersectional personal and professional identities. Acknowledging these experiences will help shape support policies that can give better support and protection to Canadian nurses, and those who aspire to get into the nursing field.

HOPE Centre Principal Investigator(s): Erin Ziegler